www­.heraldonline.com
- SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 26, 2013 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, members of the congressional delegation from the San Gabriel Valley sent a joint letter to Metro (the Los Angeles County Metrop...

blogs­.laweekly.com
- Yeah. That's L.A. for you. And what's really infuriating is when you look to your left and see a wide open ghost town of a lane. The carpool lane. A bill making its way through Sacramento would ope...

www­.latimes.com
- The plan aims to close a $160-million funding gap on Metro's Crenshaw-LAX light-rail line. But South Bay officials say it comes at the expense of millions promised to South Bay voters in 2008, when...

www­.history.com
- On this day in 1956, the U.S. Congress approves the Federal Highway Act, which allocates more than $30 billion for the construction of some 41,000 miles of interstate highways; it will be the large...

www­.theatlanticcities.com
- Protests continue across Brazil, with demonstrations scheduled in at least 12 different cities this evening. Demonstrators in Belo Horizonte blocked roads and set a bus ablaze earlier today, and au...

www­.metro-magazine.com
- Las Vegas Railway Express Inc. is in negotiations with the City of North Las Vegas for the new train station that will serve passengers traveling on the route between Southern California and Las Ve...

thecoastnews­.com
- OCEANSIDE — The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) and North County Transit District (NCTD) are partnering together to expand the Oceanside Transit Center’s train capacity as early as ne...

la­.curbed.com
- Riding a Metro bus or train is an innocuous adventure 95 percent of the time, but it's that five percent that sticks with you (and drives others back to their cars). Today the transit agency announ...

thesource­.metro.net
- Expo Line Fan has been documenting construction of the second phase of the Expo Line and recently sent along this pair of photos taken last week. The top photo shows cement being poured on the brid...

www­.transportationissuesdaily.com
- TIGER funding would increase by $51 million in 2014, for a total of $550m, through a Senate Appropriations proposal. The funding was was approved Tuesday by the Senate Appropriations Transportation...

la­.curbed.com
- Ahead of Friday's City Council meeting (where it's up for approval), developer Casden has decided to trim its huge mixed-use Casden West LA project, planned for the corner of Pico and Sepulveda. Th...

www­.masstransitmag.com
- Amtrak President and CEO Joe Boardman is announcing that America's railroad is setting a goal of 25 percent of new hires to be veterans by 2015. Sen. Joe Manchin, Rep. Jeff Denham and Michael L. Rh...

www­.kcet.org
- Other than the pedways Hamilton's transit plans never materialized, but there are several public transit options serving the area around the pedways, including the Metro's Red and Purple subway lin...

www­.trb.org
- The METRANS Transportation Center at the University of Southern California and California State University-Long Beach has released a report that discusses the risks, recovery strategies, and econom...

www­.latimes.com
- With a City Council vote on the project set for Friday, Casden abandoned plans for both a supermarket and a Target, moves that are expected to dramatically decrease the amount of automobile traffic...

bettercities­.net
- The trend toward less driving received national attention in May with the release of a report by US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), and the news has profound implications for both urbanism a...

www­.governing.com
- Freshman Rep. John Delaney, a Maryland Democrat, has a unique distinction in Washington: He’s the only former CEO of a publicly traded company serving in Congress. That experience, he says, gives h...

blogs­.laweekly.com
- Both Lyft and Uber told the Weekly they will keep running in Los Angeles despite the LADOT's cease-and-desist order. The city tells us if the ride-app companies keep picking up passengers here, the...

thesource­.metro.net
- The Metro Board of Directors meeting on Thursday should be both interesting and longer than a cold winter’s night with a broken furnace and no firewood, matches or a blanket. The Board has a lot on...

www­.latimes.com
- In spring 2012, Tustin company Bike Nation predicted the first phase of its L.A. bike-share program would be up and running by summer 2013. Soon after, officials said, as many as 4,000 bikes would ...

www­.socaltech.com
- A move by the City of Los Angeles to shut down ridesharing and transportation services Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar has spurred some consumer backlash, with a new campaign on Change.org to get LA to rep...

www­.usatoday.com
- SAN FRANCISCO — Who needs to hail a cab when you can open an app and get picked up in minutes? That's the ticket for three start-ups based here — Lyft, Sidecar and Uber — which have filled a need f...

ladotbikeblog­.wordpress.com
- Although two recent attempts at passing legislation that would require motorists safely leave at least three feet of space when overtaking bicyclists have failed due to unclear language, advocates...

fox43­.com
- Amtrak President and CEO Joe Boardman is announcing today that America’s Railroad® is setting a goal of 25 percent of new hires to be veterans by 2015. Sen. Joe Manchin, Rep. Jeff Denham and Michae...

www­.dailybreeze.com
- Representatives from two of the three car-sharing services cited by Los Angeles officials expressed surprise Tuesday at the city's actions, suggesting their companies will keep operating there. Ube...

dc­.streetsblog.org
- For years, transit agencies and other companies have been harassed by a patent troll seeking to extort them for “settlements” when they use real-time vehicle tracking technologies. ArrivalStar and ...

transportationca­.com
- Brian Kelly will head the newly reconfigured California Transportation Agency, which is part of the governor’s reorganization plan to reduce the number of state agencies, departments and entities. ...

thehill­.com
- The Senate's appropriation of $1.45 billion is "realistic" and "workable," Amtrak said on Tuesday. The company was reacting to the Senate Appropriations Committee's markup of a funding bill for th...

la­.streetsblog.org
- The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (Metro) released a new app today available at the Apple App Store and Google Play for iPhone and Android devices designed to allow riders to re...

fastlane­.dot.gov
- I spent part of this afternoon talking to a group of young people about the many benefits of public transportation. For tens of millions of Americans who can't--or choose not to--drive, transit is ...

www­.nbclosangeles.com
- MTA Installs Locked Turnstiles, Forcing Riders to Pay A new app for mobile phones designed to help increase safety on Metro buses and trains will allow passengers to report crimes and suspicious ac...

cleantechnica­.com
- California’s high-speed rail project has gotten the green light to begin even with many political obstacles still on the table. The overseeing board of the California high-speed rail project has sa...

www­.sacbee.com
- A riddle: If you land at a big-city airport and there's no train there, where are you? Yes, San Francisco, I know you're the exception, with a BART train stop inside San Francisco International Air...

www­.kcet.org
- The city of Los Angeles has replaced thousands of streetlight fixtures with LED blubs. The project, which was four years in the making, was officially completed earlier this month -- slashing carbo...

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